Head-gate.



Uivirnjn isrrnrns PATENT OFFICE.

URIAH F. MOBURNEY, OF BOISE, IDAHO, ASSIGNOR OF FIFTY-FIVE ONE- HUNDBEDTHS TO ALFRED W. WIGHER, OF BOISE, IDAHO.

HEAD-GATE.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led October 19, 1905. Serial/No. 283,432.

Patented Aug. 7, 1906.

`T0 all wiz/0m it may concern:

Be it known that I, URIAH F. MCBURNEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Boise, in the county of Ada and State of Idaho, have invented a new and Improved Head-Gate, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a simple, durable, and economic yportable head-gate adapted to be used in open ditches or laterals and which can be adjusted to any shape or size of ditch within predetermined dimensions.

A further purpose of the invention is to provide the head-gate with a waste-gate that will allow any water to pass which may be needed farther down the lateral and to so locate the said waste-gate that no water passing through the waste-gate will wash around the main gate.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be-had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the headgate applied to a ditch. Fig. 2 is an enlarged front elevation of the gate, showing one section adjustable upon the other. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the gate, taken practically on the line 3 3 of 2 g and Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the rear or fixed section of the gate drawn upon a smaller scale.

The device consists, primarily, of two main members A and B, which are in plate form and lie one upon the other, the member A being the rear member, and is adapted to be fixed in the ground, while the member B, which is the forward member, is adapted to have sliding and pivotal movement on the rear or fixed member A. The rear member A is provided with a recess 10 in its righthand edge, and the longitudinal wall 11 of this recess is inclined from the top downward to the bottom wall in direction of the lefthand side of the said member A, as is shown in Fig. 4, and also the bottom wall of the recess 10 at its right-hand portion is provided with a downwardly and outwardly extending section 12, as is also shown in Fig. 4.

"A post 13 is made fast to the longitudinal central portion of the rear member A, extending above and below the said member, and the lower end 14 of the post 13 is pointed, so that it may readily enter the round. Preferably the lower edges of -bot of the members A and B are rounded off at their corners, so that this portion of the device also maybe readily forced into the ground, as is shown in Fi 3.

igIhe two sections A and B are substantially of the same width and length, and the outer or movable section B is provided at the top with a transverse curved slot lhextending nearly from side to side, and at its bottom central portion the said outer section B is provided with a straight transverse slot 16. A pivot-bolt 17 is passed through said'slot 16 and through the post 13, being provided at the rear with a suitable nut 17 a, and at the upper right-hand corner of the back section A a bolt 18 is passed through said section and through the slot 15 at the upper end ,of the forward section B, the bolt 18 having asuitable nut 18a at its rear end. Thus it will be observed that the outer section B has pivotal connection with the rear section A, the latter section being adaptedtobefixed in the ground, and also that the said forward section B has horizontal sliding movement on the rear section, enabling the head-gate to be adapted to different sizes and shapes of ditches or laterals.

An opening B is made in the outer member B at the left-hand side of the center of said member, as is shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and at the side and bottom marginal portions of this opening slideways 19 are produced. In said slideways 19 a waste-gate 20 has guided movement, being capable of closing the opening B and of uncovering it to a greater or lesser extent. The said waste- -gate 20 is provided at the top with a suitable IOO sired. In the event lit is necessary toV give the .outer member B an inclination indirection of the right-hand side of the devicein order to properly fit the head-gate to lthe ditch or lateral the formation of therecess 10 will at such time permit the opening B to be entirely unobstructed except by the wastegate 20, which is used to regulate the amount of water to be passed from the ditch at which the head-gate is located, and by placing the waste-gate at one side of the center of the device it is evident that when the water passes through the opening B: it will not have. a tendency Ato work around ,the gate proper or disturb its position in the earth.

A horizontal tongue 14a is located at the rear lower portion of the post 13, and this tongue engages with the bottom of the ditch when the head-gate is in position, regulating the extent to which its lower portion shall be extended into the earth.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire Ato secure by Letters Patentl. In a head-gate, a member having a recess in one side and a second member having pivotal and sliding movement on the recessed member, lthe said second member being provided with a waste-gate.

2. In a head-gate, a fixed member having a recess in one side, an outer member having a pivotal and sliding movement on the fixed member, the said outer member being provided with a waste-gate, and means for holding said member in adjusted-position.

YInV a head-gate, a rear and a forward member, means for securing the rear member in the'ground, the forward member being mounted for pivotal and horizontal sliding movement on the rear member, the said forward member being provided with an opening at one side of its center, anda waste-gate for said opening.

4. In a head-gate, the combination with a rear member and a post secured thereto and adapted to enter the ground, the said rear member being provided with anrecess. atzits right-hand edge, the longitudinal .wall-wf which openingis inclined,I of afforward member having a curved slot at its upper portion and a straight slotat its lower central portion, pivot-bolts carried by the rear member, which pass through the said slots, means for tightening the said bolts, the saidA forward member being provided with an opening to the right of its center and slideways at lthe sides and bottom ofthe opening, and a wastegate adapted to the said slideways, toopen or to close the said opening, as described.

In testimony4 whereof I.have signed. my name to this specificationin the presence-of two subscribing witnesses.

URIAH. F. MCBURNEY.

Witnesses:

B. F. N EAL, A. L. LEE. 

